Lucanian Red-Figure Skyphos: Sphinx

An ancient Lucanian Greek large red-figure skyphos with a seated diademed female sphinx on each side, with palmettes under the handles.

Lucania, Magna Graecia, Southern Italy.
Ca. 330 - 300 BC.
Height: 4 1/4 in. (11.5 cm).

Published: K. Schauenburg , Studien zur unteritalischen Vasenmalerei, vol. XIII (Kiel, 2005), no. 67, pl. XXIX.

Formerly in the Jerome Eisenberg collection, New York; previously in the Tollmann collection, Cologne, acquired, in the 1960s.

Inv#: 8655

$15,000